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The Medic ~ review

THE MEDIC
Life and Death in the Last Days of WWII
By Leo Litwak
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill: 240 pp.

[quoting] Deep in their ordinary lives, when they are free from harm, many men begin to rummage inside themselves to inspect the slime left by war because they want to write about it. It is an awful task. One of the most remarkable of these memoirs is Leo Litwak, a writer and a veteran of the European theater, who has written "The Medic: Life and Death in the Last Days of WWII," a book that should be given to every schoolboy in the country at age 13. Gloria Emerson [end of quoting]